Takako Hikotani, who is serving a term appointment as the Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Columbia University, has published an article in the July 2018 issue of International Affairs (Vol. 94, no. 4) titled "The Japanese Diet and Defence Policy-making."
Professor Hikotani's article looks at the evolving role of the … [Read more...]

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share a Q&A with Takako Hikotani, who is serving a term appointment as the Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Columbia University. Professor Hikotani focuses on civil-military relations and Japanese domestic politics, Japanese foreign policy, and comparative civil-military … [Read more...]

Discussion
“The Emerging Indo-Pacific Strategy: US and Japanese Perspectives”
Admiral Tomohisa Takei, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (ret.), Chief of Naval Operations, Distinguished International Fellow, U.S. Naval War College
Stephen Sestanovich, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Diplomacy, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at … [Read more...]

Video and photographs are now available from the February 7, 2018 event "The Trump Administration’s Policy Toward East Asia."
During the event, Daniel Russel, Diplomat in Residence and Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the U.S. Department of State, discussed several diplomatic … [Read more...]